Virtual Items Policy

TikTok · agreement dated January 22, 2026 · Official agreement

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Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

You get a limited license to use Virtual Items for personal use on the Platform, with no ownership

TikTok gives you permission, called a limited license, to use Virtual Items only for your personal use on the Platform, in the ways TikTok determines and this policy and any applicable Virtual Items Terms describe. You have no right or title in Virtual Items except as those documents expressly state.

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Who
TikTok
What it covers
a limited license to use Virtual Items
Why
your personal use on the Platform

Supporting quotations

We give you permission (called a limited license) to use Virtual Items only for your personal use on the Platform consistent with the uses as determined by TikTok and this Virtual Items Policy and any applicable Virtual Items Terms. This means you have no right or title in Virtual Items except as expressly stated in this Virtual Items Policy and any applicable Virtual Items Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Personal use only, on the Platform.
  • Uses are those determined by TikTok, this policy and any applicable Virtual Items Terms.

Not stated here

  • The policy does not say whether the license can be changed or how long it lasts, apart from the termination and suspension rules.
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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You cannot buy, sell, transfer or exchange Virtual Items outside the Platform

You cannot buy, sell, assign, transfer or exchange Virtual Items outside of the Platform, or try to sell, assign, transfer, give or trade them in any other way than this policy, applicable Virtual Items Terms, or TikTok's Reward Program Terms expressly allow.

Details
What it does
buy, sell, assign, transfer or exchange Virtual Items outside the Platform
Exception
as expressly permitted in this policy, Virtual Items Terms or Reward Program Terms

Supporting quotations

You cannot buy, sell, assign, transfer or exchange Virtual Items outside of the Platform, or attempt to sell, assign, transfer, give or trade Virtual Items otherwise than as expressly permitted in this Virtual Items Policy, any applicable Virtual Items Terms, or otherwise by us in applicable Reward Program Terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The exception is what this policy, the Virtual Items Terms or applicable Reward Program Terms expressly permit.

Not stated here

  • The Reward Program Terms and Virtual Items Terms are not supplied, so the permitted transfers are not known from this document.
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